An Israeli couple scrambled to reach their kids and rushed to separate shelters as Iran’s ballistic missiles rained down throughout Saturday.
“It’s all day long like this, we woke up and it’s like alert alert alert,” Israeli citizen Anat Tabachnik told The Post.
Tabachnik, 45, was with her boyfriend Nadav Kaidar in the Israeli city Ramat Gan when they were awakened by the sound of sirens.
Iran has launched dozens of ballistic missiles at civilian targets across the Jewish state after the outbreak of “Operation Epic Fury.”
“I keep shaking all the time. I feel like ‘Oh god I don’t know, we’ve got work, we’ve got life and we just have to stop,’ ” Tabchnik said.
She rushed to her 17-year-old daughter from a previous marriage in the Northern Israeli city of Tzipori 17 miles away.
“I felt really really anxious, I got my daughter and just ran. We went to a shelter in a tunnel beneath the roads. We rushed in a tunnel we just stood there. It’s like really scary,” she said.
As Tabachnik was speaking to The Post, sirens blared and the sounds of explosions could be heard. It was unclear if the explosions were from Iron Dome interceptions or Iranian missiles landing.
“So many booms, oh my G-d,” she said before hurriedly hanging up the phone and returning to shelter.
Kaider, 40, who took shelter with his five-year-old son, said that despite hearing missile explosions and interceptions overhead, he had to put on a brave face to protect his boy from trauma.
“The most important thing right now is to give the kids a feeling that we are calm. The most important thing is to give our children a feeling of safety. It’s really to hold yourself together,” he told The Post.
The couple, who run a company that helps divorcees rebuild their lives, are riddled with anxiety as they spend the war in separate shelters miles apart.
“We’re texting all the time, calling over WhatsApp,” Kaider said.
“It feels like we don’t really know when it’s going to end and that’s quite hard to be separated from each other,” Tabachnik said.
